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I’m an editor, writer, and musician living just outside of New Haven, Connecticut.

Editing, Journalism & Nonfiction

These days I work for the New Haven Independent, where I mostly write and edit arts stories and edit some news stories. I’m one of the editors of the New Haven Review. Lately I’ve also done editing work for DataHaven, a regional public policy thinktank.

Pre-New Haven Independent, I worked for a variety of public policy organizations and academic presses, among them the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Peterson Institute for International Economics, and Columbia University Press. While getting my masters degree in public policy from Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs, I was senior editor of its Journal of International Affairs.

One of my favorite pieces I’ve written outside of the Independent is “A Kinder and More Caring Future?” which appeared in Reckoning, vol. 2. It combines journalism, memoir, and a little creative writing to talk about how we might be able to adapt to the gargantuan challenges of climate change with hope, and even a little humor.

Fiction

For the past few years, I’ve been on the writing team for Bookburners, an ongoing serialized story created by Max Gladstone and including fellow writers Margaret Dunlap, Mur Lafferty, and Andrea Phillips. Bookburners is published by Serial Box.

I’ve written four published novels: Spaceman Blues: A Love Song,Liberation: Being the Adventures of the Slick Six After the Collapse of the United States of America, Lost Everything (which won the Philip K. Dick Award in 2012), and The Family Hightower. I’ve also published short fiction in Glimmer Train, Interfictions, The Revelator, and the anthology Welcome to Dystopia, among other places.